Verse 1 Midnight sleeping on the windows Rain is running down the glass I can hear the city breathing Like it knows my troubled past There’s a picture on the table Of a girl I used to be She was waiting for permission Now she’s staring back at me Pre-Chorus I feel the silence breaking Like a warning in my veins Every match I thought was ashes Still remembers how to blaze Chorus I’m walking through the velvet fire Barefoot on the edge of night You can call me what you want to I’m no longer yours to write There’s a storm beneath my skin now There’s a truth I can’t deny I was born inside the darkness But I learned to make it shine Verse 2 Black lace hanging from the doorway Old perfume inside the air Every room is full of echoes But I don’t belong in there I can feel the floor beneath me I can hear my heartbeat rise All the ghosts that tried to hold me Lose their shape beneath the light Pre-Chorus I don’t need another answer I don’t need another name What they called a weakness in me Was the source of all my flames Chorus I’m walking through the velvet fire Barefoot on the edge of night You can call me what you want to I’m no longer yours to write There’s a storm beneath my skin now There’s a truth I can’t deny I was born inside the darkness But I learned to make it shine Bridge If I disappear, let me go I’m not the girl you used to know No more chains around my soul No more fear that feels like home Watch me rise without a sound Watch me leave this haunted ground What you buried underground Is the strongest thing you found Final Chorus I’m walking through the velvet fire With the moonlight in my eyes Every scar became a compass Every tear became a sign There’s a storm beneath my skin now And it’s finally breaking free I was born inside the darkness Now the darkness burns for me Outro Midnight fading from the windows Rain is turning into gold There’s a fire in the silence And it finally feels like home
